[VIDEO] Why are Jews still voting for Democrats?

Probably the question asked of me most frequently, both on my blog and by conservatives here in the Bay Area, is “Why do Jews keep voting for Democrats, when Democrats are increasingly hostile to Jews and Israel?” There are two answers. The first is the one grounded in history, the one that saw naive Jews thinking that the uniting workers of the world would stand side-by-side with Jews against the slights and pogroms and poverty. For far too many Jews, voting Left (and, in America, that means Democrat) is simply an unthinking historic tradition.

The second answer is that Jews in America have supplanted the Torah with the Democrat Party platform. It’s this second answer that Ben Shapiro expands upon in this excellent video:

Like this:

Before circa 1964, the black vote was not monolithic. Circa 64, Barry Goldwater, the standard bearer for conservativism, came out against the Civil Rights Act on federalism grounds. Probably right on the law, catastrophically wrong on the politics. Since then, Republicans have largely written off the black vote, making no coordinated or sustained attempt to win back blacks. The RNC has been just as tin eared as Goldwater. Chip the black vote down from 90% Dem to 60% Dem and the progs would never win another national election. Education reform and breaking the hold of public sector unions is the perfect opportunity.

ymarsakar

It would have been preferable to have the states handle it, except Democrats had a stranglehold on the South’s culture, politics, and economy. Having the locals fix the problem would be the most efficient way for government to do it. Except the locals were being lynched and killed and punished for doing any such thing. Democrats in the South were notorious for running off “Republican sympathizers” or “black sympathizers”, going all the way back to the Civil War I Reconstruction and KKK regime. Goldwater didn’t seem to understand the evil taint at the heart of the South, during Democrat times.

Republicans began losing the black vote when Reconstruction failed. The KKK was able to mitigate a lot of anti Democrat votes in the areas the KKK led insurgency and terrorist strikes against.

Wolf Howling

That was educational. As a conservative Christian, I hold one enduring grudge against Jews. It’s giving the world Karl Marx (born of a long line of rabbis no less). Now that is original sin . . . . Of course, I also hold grudges against evangelical Christians for giving us Engels and the Catholics for giving us liberation theology and St. Augustine.

Obaaaaaaaama sheep get sheared

I hold RELIGION as MANS first WMD..RELIGION Invented by MAN to control the sheeple.

David Foster

Jews have traditionally valued education more than most other groups. Once upon a time, this was a *good* thing…but as higher education has come more and more to involve a heavy dose of Leftist indoctrination, those people and groups who spend more seat time in universities will naturally be driven to the Left.

That’s an excellent point, David. By taking over the universities, the Left inevitably took over the Jews.

ymarsakar

Neo had a good post about this issue of Jews being separate and often contradictory. I wrote that it was a result of using the same word for slightly different variations. Muslims have their own words we often borrow to describe things. Like a Jihadist, different from a lapsed or heretical Muslim, even though to a Jihadist the only true Muslim is a jihadist Muslim. English normally has very specific vocabulary for different meanings, and that helps shape one’s thinking. Except it doesn’t seem to have worked for the Semitic people, as Arabs and Jews and other people there tend to get covered by one broad terminology.

David Foster

Lots of people on supposedly-pro-Israel FB threads saying Netanyahu should cancel his speech. Because “politicization.” I believe the clown who runs ADL has taken the same position.

I think if this speech is cancelled because of these pressures, it would be a disaster not only for Israel but for the US and the world, a clear signal that the Left can not only cause the Iranian nuclear (and conventional) threat to be ignored, but can also assert power to block serious discussion of this threat.

RaymondJelli

Be careful when discussing this because it has a big fallacy associated with it. When someone stops associating with being Jewish they are no longer a Jewish Democrat, Jewish Republican or a Jewish Libertarian Puppy Worshiper. They are a Democrat, Republican or Libertarian Puppy Worshiper.

We speak of post-christian Europe. We don’t speak of post-Jewish liberals. It is a shame because the use of Jewish this or Jewish that is often used by the Left to create the illusion that the Left is popular on its own terms and not just with those who are the usual suspects. Post-Jewish Liberal Jews against Israel doesn’t have the same ring as Jews against Israel. The Left plays the same game with all minorities. That is why they are so vicious against women and minority conservatives. They need the plantation without the overt overseers.

It is also necessary to realize that as the pollsters need numbers the category of Jew gets far more fluid. We saw it in NYC. Russian and Orthodox Jews were voting Republican in high numbers (Russian Jews identify Jewish and have moved to Orthodoxy. You can see plenty of neighborhoods in Brooklyn with Kosher signs in English and Russian. They vote conservative because having lived under Communism they absolutely hate it.) In order to make sure they kept absolute control the Democrats completely gerrymandered these neighborhoods. In addition you can’t find any polls reflecting greater Jewish conservatism although it is absolutely visible in everyday life. They simply relaxed what is Jewish. A grandfather who didn’t formerly convert but all his children and grandchildren are catholic or ex-catholic leftists. They are Jewish. Pro-Islamic hipsters living in NYC for a year are now Jewish if they have a self-hating parent that may have had some Jewish ancestry.

All you have to do is read Daniel Greenfield to know what Jewish conservatism is and sounds like. He is excellent at what he does but he isn’t an outlier. He is representative of ideas that are practiced every day.

Sadie

Kohelet: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
The ‘Golden Calf Congregation’ has been around since the Exodus.

Demokkkrats

I don’t remember Republicans not letting Jews play on the “golf course” in the bad old days in the country clubs or whatever. I do remember however that the Democrat party was the party how hated jews, blacks, Asians, or anything none white. I am so tired of this party flip bs nonsense.

Obaaaaaaaama sheep get sheared

The same can be said for blacks who support welfare more than education and follow people like Sharpton.The democrats only use them for votes and will throw both under the bus for the illegal Mexican voters.

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